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Emergenz und Genese der Tonalität im Tschadischen: Ein Beitrag zur Sprachgeschichte Nordostafrikas
Folia OrientaliaThe Chadic languages, numbering approximately 150 and spoken in central Sudan, did not—as members of the Afroasiatic phylum—originally dispose and make use of the structural feature of tonality.
Herrmann Jungraithmayr
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Rescaffolding the bundle in Afroasiatic inflection
Brill's Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics, 2023 Abstract Person, number and gender features in the Afroasiatic verbal system are sometimes prefixes, sometimes suffixes and sometimes both. This paper attempts to derive the Tamazight and Hebrew systems using syntactic tools and eschewing postsyntactic or morphological linearization rules.
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Convergence and secondary entropy in a macrodiachronic perspective
TIPA. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage, 2021 The theory of secondary convergence and entropy has had interesting results in the comparative linguistics of Semitic languages, as in the studies of Lutz Edzard who analyzed the secondary convergence between various Semitic languages once they were ...
Cyril Aslanov
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African Lambdas II: Formal Semantics of African Languages—The Verbal and Clausal Domain
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 1, January/February 2026.ABSTRACT The formal semantic analysis of African languages is still a young subfield within theoretical linguistics. Starting with general overviews of the quantifier systems of individual African languages around two decades ago, there now exists a substantial body of fieldwork‐based and autochthonous formal semantic research conducted by both African
Malte Zimmermann
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THE ARABIC NUMERALS AS A CATEGORY OF THE CERTAIN QUANTITY
Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2020 Purpose. The paper deals with the lexical and grammatical analysis of numeral in Arabic (the Afroasiatic language family). The cardinal, ordinal and fractional numerals are under investigation. Numerals, expressing the exact number, are considered in the
Nailya Gabdelkhamitovna Mingazova
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Folia OrientaliaThe contribution summarises the Beja lexicon connected with natural phenomena, including astronomical, temporal, and geographical terminology. Every lexeme is documented in available sources and etymologized in areal or genealogical perspectives.
Václav Blažek
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Time to Proficiency in Young English Learners and Factors That Affect Progress
TESOL Quarterly, Volume 59, Issue 2, Page 695-729, June 2025.Abstract We investigated the time it takes 54,146 English learners (ELs) to attain English proficiency as they progressed from age 5 to 11 on average (Kindergarten through fifth grade in the United States). We also examine to what extent the time‐to‐proficiency estimate is affected by child‐internal and child‐external factors, including primary ...
Xiaowan Zhang, Paula Winke
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Aspects of Northern Mao Phonology
Linguistic Discovery, 2009 In general terms, the phonology of Omotic languages has received little attention. This paper presents core phonological properties of on Omotic language, Norther Mao.
Michael Ahland
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Studia Orientalia ElectronicaGuanche is an extinct language or languages spoken by the indigenous people of the Canary Islands. Although it is widely assumed that their language belonged to the Berber branch of the Afroasiatic languages, this has not been adequately tested.
Zev Brook
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Word Forms Reflect Trade‐Offs Between Speaker Effort and Robust Listener Recognition
Cognitive Science, Volume 48, Issue 7, July 2024.Abstract How do cognitive pressures shape the lexicons of natural languages? Here, we reframe George Kingsley Zipf's proposed “law of abbreviation” within a more general framework that relates it to cognitive pressures that affect speakers and listeners.
Stephan C. Meylan, Thomas L. Griffiths
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